Thirty Books Nominated for 2013 Atlantic Book Awards
Atlantic Book Awards press release,
March 20, 2013 [Source: http://www.atlanticbookawards.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-Shortlist-Media-Release-ABAS.pdf]
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The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased
to announce the full shortlist for the ten different book prizes that make up
the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards. The thirty books up for awards represent
the wide range of literary works being produced in Atlantic Canada—from
traditional novels to cutting edge fiction; thought-provoking non-fiction and
deeply researched books on Atlantic Canadian history, to poetry; and
illustrated children’s picture books to novels written for teens and young
adults. The full shortlist is printed below and is available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca.
Among the more familiar names on the shortlist are
media personality and CTV Atlantic’s meteorologist, Cindy Day for
her weather-related book, Grandma Says (Nimbus Publishing);
prolific and celebrated Newfoundland novelist, Donna Morrissey for The
Deception of Livvy Higgs (Viking Canada); and acclaimed poet Don
McKay for Paradoxides (McClelland & Stewart).
McKay is nominated for The E.J. Pratt Poetry
Award. The E.J. Pratt Award, along with the Rogers Communications
Award for Non-fiction, is part of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards
which carry the distinguished patronage of the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland
and Labrador. These awards cover a two-calendar-year publishing period as they
alternate between non-fiction/poetry one year, and fiction/children’s/young
adult literature the next. Under the umbrella of the Atlantic Book Awards for
the second time now, the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards are presented by
the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador in partnership with the
Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.
A new Atlantic Book Award being presented for the
first time this year is the Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing,
sponsored by Marquis Imprimeur.
The region’s book publishers are well represented on
the shortlist with 16 of the 30 awards going to books by Atlantic publishers.
Halifax’s Nimbus Publishing leads, having published five of
the shortlisted titles, while New Brunswick’s Goose Lane Editions has
three nominations, and Cape Breton University Press and
Newfoundland and Labrador’s Breakwater Books each have two
nominations. Other regional publishers with short-listed titles are Nova
Scotia’s Fernwood Publishing, PEI’s Acorn Press and
St. John’s-based Creative Book Publishing and Flanker
Press.
The Atlantic Book Awards Society announced the
nominees last evening at a fundraising event that featured author Donna
Morrissey hosting a conversation with fellow writers Catherine
Banks, Sylvia Gunnery and Shandi Mitchell.
The 2013 Atlantic Book Awards and Festival runs
May 9-16 with free literary events taking place in all four
Atlantic Provinces. Festival details will be available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca in
the coming weeks. Winners of the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards will
be announced at a special awards show on the last night of the week-long
festival, Thursday, May 16, at 7:00 p.m. at the Alderney Landing
Theatre in Dartmouth, NS. It’s a special year this year for the Dartmouth
Book Awards – 2013 is the 25th anniversary of these awards,
some of the oldest in Canada.
Web Site: www.atlanticbookawards.ca
2013 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS and FESTIVAL
SHORTLIST
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s
Literature
Live to Tell
By Lisa Harrington
Publisher: Dancing Cat Books
Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and
Injustice in Sierra Leone
By Kathleen Martin
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Enemy Territory
By Sharon E. McKay
Publisher: Annick Press
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
Sponsored by Friesens Corporation
Grandma Says
By Cindy Day
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Riptides: New Island Fiction
Edited by Richard Lemm
Published by: Acorn Press
The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of
Harry Houdini
By Bruce MacNab
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
Sponsored by Marquis Imprimeur
The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of
Oil
By Susan Dodd
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
A History of Newfoundland in the North
Atlantic to 1818
By Shannon Ryan
Publisher: Flanker Press
The Language of This Land, Mi'kma'ki
By Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press
Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in
Memory of Robbie Robertson,
Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
The Village of My Heart’s
Mistake: An Acadian Life
By Denise Cormier
Publisher: Encompass Editions
Nova Scotia’s Historic
Rivers: The Waterways that Shaped the Province
By Joan Dawson
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
French Taste in Atlantic Canada
1604-1758: A Gastronomic History/
Le goût Français au Canada Atlantique
1604-1758: Une Histoire Gastronomique
By Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal
VéChambre
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press
Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for
Historical Writing
Haunted Girl: Esther Cox and
the Great Amherst Mystery
By Laurie Glenn Norris with Barbara
Thompson
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and
Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN
By Peter Thomas and Nicholas Tracy
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
In Search of R. B. Bennett
By P.B. Waite
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s
University Press
E.J. Pratt Poetry Award
Gift Horse
By Mark Callanan
Publisher: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press
Paradoxides
By Don McKay
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Whiteout
By George Murray
Publisher: ECW Press
Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award
(Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke
The Rest is Silence
By Scott Fotheringham
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Anna From Away
By D. R. MacDonald
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publishers Limited
The Deception of Livvy Higgs
By Donna Morrissey
Publisher: Viking Canada
Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in
Illustration
Driftwood Dragons and Other Seaside Poems
By Tyne Brown
Illustrated by Tamara Thiebaux Heikalo
(nominee)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
I is for Island: A Prince Edward Island
Alphabet
By Hugh MacDonald
Illustrated by Brenda Jones (nominee)
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Toes In My Nose and Other Poems
By Sheree Fitch
Illustrated by Sydney Smith (nominee)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
High-Water Mark
By Nicole Dixon
Publisher: The Porcupine’s Quill
Dirty Bird
By Keir Lowther
Publisher: Tightrope Books
Braco
By Lesleyanne Ryan
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Rogers Communications Award for
Non-fiction
The Other Side of Midnight: Taxicab
Stories
By Mike Heffernan
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing
Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True
Story of Newfoundland’s Confederation with Canada
By Greg Malone
Publisher: Knopf Canada
In the Field
By Joan Sullivan
Publisher: Breakwater Books
